Word: storming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delivered Pennsylvania for Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1936-the first time since 1856 that a Democratic presidential candidate had carried the state. By 1944, Lawrence had enough national clout to stem a convention tide favoring the renomination of Henry A. Wallace as F.D.R.'s Vice President. Amid a storm of boos on the convention floor. Lawrence demanded and won a recess. By the time the sessions resumed the next day, Wallace was out and Harry S Truman, a longtime crony of Lawrence...
Magic Phrase. In Philadelphia last week, an overflow crowd jammed Irvine Auditorium to see Graham and her company. Legend of Judith attracted the most attention because Graham herself appeared in the lead role, serving as the mystic eye of a swirling storm of dancers who flashed dreamlike through the "unknown landscape of the mind." Though she moved with a quiet, serene grace, age seemed to have made its impression; her dancing carried more suggestion than statement. But if the body was a little unwilling, the flame of the spirit still glowed...
...Vernon Rossow likens a tornado to the rotor of an electrostatic motor, which turns as it transfers electric charges between a positive and a negative electrode. Much the same happens, he theorizes, when a region of positively charged water droplets form near another region of negatively charged droplets in storm clouds...
Assuming that a life-sized tornado could also be stopped by equalizing the charge on adjacent regions in storm clouds, Rossow proposes a novel experiment. Fine wire could be wound into a projectile and fired through tornado-spawning clouds. After the projectile leaves the cannon, a parachute-like plate attached to one end of the wire would pop open. It would pull on the wire, causing it to unravel from the speeding projectile...
...goes on to say, "Typhoons hardly ever happen north of Pago Pago, but the way your luck has been running it wouldn't surprise us if it happened to youknowwho. First your water dries up. Your lights conk out. No newspapers, no subways. So why not a tropical storm? Or maybe your sewer system will back up and you'll be riding to work on alligators. We don't have any black outs or water shortages or subway strikes. Matter of fact, our commuter trains are seldom even late...